Diet, lifestyle and genetic susceptibility
Every day, each Dane consumes an average of 3 kilograms of food and fluids, which amounts to a ton each year. Food consumption habits have both health and environmental consequences. In the research group, we study associations between diet, lifestyle and health. The main outcomes we focus on are obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer, both in one generation and across generations in families. Increasingly, we also study the interplay between food consumption, environmental impact, and health.
Research areas
- Applying novel methods to assess associations between diet and health
- Modelled substitution of foods
- Socioeconomic determinants of food and drink habits
- Associations between diet, lifestyle and obesity exposures in one generation, and health outcomes in the next
- Environmentally sustainable foods or dietary habits and health
- The interplay between genetic variation, diet, and health
Recent publications
Publications
Dahm, C. C., Keogh, R. H., Spencer, E. A., Greenwood, D. C., Key, T. J., Fentiman, I. S., Shipley, M. J., Brunner, E. J., Cade, J. E., Burley, V. J., Mishra, G., Stephen, A. M., Kuh, D., White, I. R., Luben, R., Lentjes, M. A. H., Khaw, K. T. & Rodwell Bingham, S. A. (2010). Dietary fiber and colorectal cancer risk: a nested case-control study using food diaries. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 102(9), 614-26. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djq092
Boffetta, P., Couto, E., Wichmann, J., Ferrari, P., Trichopoulos, D., Bueno-de-Mesquita, H. B., van Duijnhoven, F. J. B., Büchner, F. L., Key, T., Boeing, H., Nöthlings, U., Linseisen, J., Gonzalez, C. A., Overvad, K., Nielsen, M. R. S., Tjønneland, A., Olsen, A., Clavel-Chapelon, F., Boutron-Ruault, M.-C. ... Trichopoulou, A. (2010). Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Overall Cancer Risk in the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 102(8), 529-37. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djq072
Hansen, L., Dragsted, L. O., Olsen, A., Christensen, J., Tjønneland, A., Schmidt, E. B. & Overvad, K. (2010). Fruit and vegetable intake and risk of acute coronary syndrome. British Journal of Nutrition, 104(2), 248-255. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114510000462
Dahm, C. C., Keogh, R. H., Lentjes, M. A. H., Spencer, E. A., Key, T. J., Greenwood, D. C., Cade, J. E., Burley, V. J., Shipley, M. J., Brunner, E. J., Stephen, A. M., Mishra, G., Kuh, D., Fentiman, I. S., White, I. R., Luben, R., Khaw, K. T. & Rodwell Bingham, S. A. (2010). Intake of dietary fats and colorectal cancer risk: Prospective findings from the UK Dietary Cohort Consortium. Cancer epidemiology, 34(5), 562-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2010.07.008
Egeberg, R., Olsen, A., Loft, S., Christensen, J., Johnsen, N. F., Overvad, K. & Tjønneland, A. (2010). Intake of wholegrain products and risk of colorectal cancers in the Diet, Cancer and Health cohort study. British Journal of Cancer, 103(5), 730-4. https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6605806
Park, J. Y., Mitrou, P. N., Keen, J., Dahm, C. C., Gay, L. J., Luben, R. N., McTaggart, A., Khaw, K.-T., Ball, R. Y., Arends, M. J. & Rodwell, S. A. (2010). Lifestyle factors and p53 mutation patterns in colorectal cancer patients in the EPIC-Norfolk study. Mutagenesis, 25(4), 351-8. https://doi.org/10.1093/mutage/geq012
Spencer, E. A., Key, T. J., Appleby, P. N., Dahm, C. C., Keogh, R. H., Fentiman, I. S., Akbaraly, T., Brunner, E. J., Burley, V., Cade, J. E., Greenwood, D. C., Stephen, A. M., Mishra, G., Kuh, D., Luben, R., Mulligan, A. A., Khaw, K.-T. & Rodwell, S. A. (2010). Meat, poultry and fish and risk of colorectal cancer: pooled analysis of data from the UK dietary cohort consortium. Cancer Causes & Control, 21(9), 1417-25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-010-9569-7
